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Page is much plainer when talking about working with DiCaprio. ‘Leo is a f– movie star,’ she says emphatically. ‘It was really insane to be in a place like Morocco in an area that seems semi-abandoned and have people yelling, “Leo, Leo,” ’ she says. ‘I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw Titanic. And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

And I think I maybe even had a picture of Leo in my locker at school. Shh – don’t tell anyone!’

Page was already acting herself by then; she was cast in Pit Pony, a film for Canadian television, at 10 years old and continued to work throughout her school years.

At 17 she played the lead role in Hard Candy, a cult hit in which Page’s 14-year-old character turns the tables on a paedophile. It was a hard-hitting and critically acclaimed performance. (It’s also the film that caught the attention of Jason Reitman, who directed Juno.)

‘I think of some of the things they’ve allowed me to do,’ Page says of her parents, ‘and I think, “Wow.” When I was 16 my parents let me live alone in Europe [to film Mouth to Mouth], and I may have had wine once in a while. I may leave out some details about some experiences,’ she says with a laugh.

Q: It seems to me the film’s core is the notion that thoughts can transform and even destroy you.

A: And they can perpetuate our personal suffering. And the elusiveness of all love. Sure, shooting this movie made me think more about my dreams. But what “Inception” made me think of more, especially because of books I was reading at the time, is my awake world and the elusiveness of all life. My own, individual perspective and the thoughts I’m creating for myself. Definitely a bit of an existential-crisis-esque time, but I’m in my early 20s, so … (laughs)

Q: Were there times you had trouble tracking the four levels of subconsciousness in the climax?

A: Of course. But Chris could answer pretty much any question I had. When you’re getting into multiple levels and projection – luckily, my character is the newbie who is asking all the questions like, “Whose subconscious are we going into, again? Because I’m fricking lost.” On the day (of shooting), that’s a really crazy moment and you don’t think of that having any humor in it. But watching it with an audience, that gets a lot of laughs because everyone’s like, “Thank you!”

Q: Weren’t you a little jealous you didn’t get the tumbling-hotel fight?

A: You know what? I was. I want to say it delicately because that was so much pain for Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and a lot of training. I’m sure there were days when he was not letting on just how exhausted he was and how much pain he was in because he’s such a rad dude. … But I love that stuff. I was always an athlete when I was a kid. When I got to watch Joe do some of it, I was blown away. It’s like something that’s never been in a movie before. To shoot such an insane action sequence, so practically (in-camera with no visual effects) – that’s mind-blowing.

Q: So what is behind this great passion of yours for bees?

A: They’re absurdly selfless, they supply us with at least one-third of our food – they’re pollinators – and they’re disappearing, as I think is pretty commonly known now. Without bees, we’re basically dead. It can be explained, it’s just that pesticide companies don’t want to allow it to be explained. I got to be involved with these lovely people who made this wonderful documentary, “Vanishing of the Bees”; I narrated it.

There’s this image in the film – it shows how a bee performs on a healthy flower. It’s stunningly gorgeous. Then it shows a bee on a flower that’s been sprayed and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. I was so moved by this poor bee that was so confused, lost, couldn’t even grasp onto the flower. In France, farmers banded together because they knew it was a specific pesticide, and they got it banned. And here, the discussion isn’t even open.

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These days, the term “young Hollywood” conjures up images of pouty, plastic starlets being chased down Robertson Boulevard by paparazzi and probation officers, but recently the soulful side of young Hollywood made an appearance at a corner deli on Franklin Avenue. “Hi Joe,” Ellen Page said with a faraway smile as Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave her a hug.

Page and Gordon-Levitt are costars in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” the perception-bending heist movie that opens July 16 amid high expectations and strong early reviews. Leonardo DiCaprio leads an extremely deep cast — there are seven Oscar nominees in the film — but Nolan says that Page and Gordon-Levitt more than held their own. “They were simply outstanding,” the director said last year on the London set, “their performances are key to the film and some of the best work I’ve seen.”

But more than their work in any single film, Gordon-Levitt and Page are interesting because, in an era when vacuous celebrity and recycled concepts are ascendant, they are talented actors of serious ambition. Of course, both of them roll their eyes at the expectations and even pretensions that come bundled with that sort of statement — but they also talk freely and articulately about their frustrations with media of the moment and the paradoxes of stardom.

Page, a Nova Scotia native with bird bones and a steady gaze, made her screen debut at age 10 in a Canadian television movie and turned 23 a week after this last Valentine’s Day. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a pregnant high school student in the 2007 film “Juno” and before that startled audiences in the 2005 movie “Hard Candy,” in which she portrayed a teenager who traps and tortures a man she suspects is a sexual predator.

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ELLEN PAGE struggled to differentiate between dreams and reality as a chi ld, because she suffered from “incredibly vivid” sleep hallucinations.
The Oscar-nominated actress would regularly wake up in the halls of hot els after a bout of sleepwalking and be convinced she had seen a range of bizarre items – including a deep freeze.
And the Juno star admits she found her dreamlike states “scary” – becau se she was never sure if she was still dreaming or awake.
She tells Britain’s Sunday Times, “I guess you’d call them night halluc inations. I’ve often found myself sleepwalking and waking up in halls of hotels. If someone saw me, they would think I was awake, but I am seeing something else and I am communicating with it, whether it is a person or where I see something as obscure as a bird’s nest or bugs. And, one time, there a deep freeze in my room.
“It feels real to me and it is incredibly vivid. Luckily, it is happeni ng less as I get older, because when I was a kid it was scary. It created a lot of existential dilemma, because you start having these questions, like, ‘Is this person really perceiving me?’ Nobody can ever say anything to me to convince me they really exist, because who knows? It has never fully gone away, although, luckily, I can’t recall when last it happened.

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I will have the scan up from Spin soon as I just got my magazine yesterday, it was a very pleasant surprise to see her in it!

Name a song you’ve listened to in the past 24 hours.
Probably something from Peaches’ Impeach My Bush, because her CD is in my car. “Tent in Your Pants” keeps me upbeat and engaged while I’m driving.

If you were to play someone in a rock biopic, who would it be?
Patti Smith. When I first heard Horses, it was like listening to all of my favorite “now” bands in one album. But she’s so amazing that there’s no way I could ever do it. I’d be puking every day. Plus, I don’t look anything like her. She’s got this gorgeous, heroin-chic thing going on, and I have a moon face.

What was the first album you bought with your own money?
Radiohead’s Amnesiac. Yes, that’s how young I am. They became my first sincere love in music. Before that, I was jumping on my bed and listening to Aqua.

So who comes after Radiohead on your iPod?
Ron Sexsmith. He’s a Canadian singer-songwriter. There’s a tragic sincerity to his music, kind of like Will Oldham. I used to see him walking around Toronto and get really giddy.

What’s a song that you have put on a mix for somebody you had a crush on?
Cat Power’s “Wild Is the Wind.” It’s way over the top. It might have been inappropriate-bordering-on-frightening, but that’s all I’ll say about that.

Is there a band that you and a costar have bonded over?
[Inception's] Cillian Murphy gave me the Bon Iver album For Emma, Forever Ago, and I listened to it nonstop. I don’t put nearly as much effort into finding good music as I used to.

Whose T-shirt do you proudly wear?
I have this amazing CocoRosie shirt that reminds me of the time I went backpacking through Europe with my best friend, Mark. We went to this tiny show of theirs on the outskirts of Vienna.

Who would we be surprised to learn is in your collection?
Joe Budden. His song “Fire,” featuring Busta Rhymes, makes me think of really greasy high-school parties. And sometimes I just like to put it on and dance like a moron. I dance like a moron very frequently when I’m by myself. Those are good times.

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MTV: This film has been shrouded in mystery for so long. Are you looking forward to everyone finally seeing it for themselves so you don’t have to be so vague about everything?

Ellen Page: I can just e-mail you the script if you want …

MTV: Awesome! Do you have a pen to take it down?

Page: Yeah, I’ll do that after the interview. No, I’m excited, but I haven’t even seen it yet. I’m really excited. I hope that doesn’t sound rude, because, like, I’m in it. Visually, this film is going to be unbelievable. But on top of that, it was just such a strong script that Chris wrote. So original. Although the concept is elaborate and complex, it’s based in so much truth and so much sincerity. The actual emotional spine of the story is so touching. I think it’s going to be a very special movie. I wish people would spend less energy trying to find out what it’s about, because an experience is always way more exciting having no idea. It must have been awesome going to movies 20 years ago and having such a limited idea of what it’s about and either loving or hating it.

MTV: What were your initial conversations and audition with Chris like?

Page: I actually had a general meeting with Chris, because I’m a huge fan of his films. I didn’t know about “Inception” when I met him. I really liked him — such a down-to-earth guy, no ego at all, just a pleasant, enjoyable guy to talk to. I left the meeting just thinking Chris is this really rad guy. And then, maybe a week later, the idea of “Inception” came up and that he was thinking about me for it. Then I got to read the script in an office. I wasn’t sent a copy. The script totally blew me away. I was totally into playing the character, and he decided I was right for the part.

MTV: So during the shoot, you’re talking about dreams, acting out dreams. Did all that affect your own dreams at the end of the day?

Page: No, I wish it did, because it would make an interview more interesting. Give me a couple more months until we’re in the thick of it, and I’ll come up with something. Sometimes I have incredibly vivid dreams. I used to sleepwalk a lot. I don’t anymore, thank God. I used to have night hallucinations where I would see somebody and talk to them when I was asleep. The other night, I had a dream where the headboard above my bed had all these bird nests. I was like, “What are all these bird nests doing here?”

MTV: I have no idea what that means. It sounds weird.

Page: It was so weird.

MTV: We’ve seen some brief glimpses of the movie’s action sequences — fight scenes in rotating hallways and stuff like that. Does your character take part in the action?

Page: God, it’s so hard to know what I’m allowed to talk about. I’m definitely involved with the action, which was so enjoyable. You feel like you’re a little kid. There were times, especially at the beginning, where I felt incredibly out of place and slightly confused as to how I got cast. It was such a boys club. It was the most action I’ve ever been involved in. Chris is doing things we’ve never seen before.

MTV: Does working on a huge production like this make you more open to summer tentpole movies, or are you keen on more intimate films?

Page: I’m just open. As an actor, being able to do all sorts of different films is an incredible gift. I would, in a millisecond, work with Chris again. I found that an incredibly fulfilling experience. Despite the massiveness of this production, when you’re working with Chris, it’s an intimate experience. He’s a filmmaker because he loves film and he loves making films. And there’s no ego attached to what he does. When you feel that sincerity and passion, it’s an amazing atmosphere. Despite how visually incredible and massive this film is — similar to “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” — there’s so much honesty that makes them better than those broad summer movies that come out.

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I actually had a general meeting with Chris, because I’m a huge fan of his films. I didn’t know about Inception when I met him. I really liked him — such a down-to-earth guy, no ego at all, just a pleasant, enjoyable guy to talk to. I left the meeting just thinking Chris is this really rad guy. And then, maybe a week later, the idea of Inception came up and that he was thinking about me for it. Then I got to read the script in an office. I wasn’t sent a copy. The script totally blew me away. I was totally into playing the character, and he decided I was right for the part.

I’m definitely involved with the action, which was so enjoyable. You feel like you’re a little kid. There were times, especially at the beginning, where I felt incredibly out of place and slightly confused as to how I got cast. It was such a boys club. It was the most action I’ve ever been involved in. Chris is doing things we’ve never seen before.

I would, in a millisecond, work with Chris again. I found that an incredibly fulfilling experience. Despite the massiveness of this production, when you’re working with Chris, it’s an intimate experience. He’s a filmmaker because he loves film and he loves making films. And there’s no ego attached to what he does. When you feel that sincerity and passion, it’s an amazing atmosphere. Despite how visually incredible and massive this film is—similar to Batman Begins and The Dark Knight—there’s so much honesty that makes them better than those broad summer movies that come out.

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